Word: capitalists
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Hailed by Fortune magazine as the most successful capitalist who ever lived, the 1937 graduate of Brown received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1975. Watson is believed to be the first person since Benjamin Franklin to have received honorary degrees from both Harvard and Yale in the same month...
With Juan Carlos it seems, started a streak of sensational Commencement speakers. America's money man came to Cambridge, three years after America's greatest capitalist did. Federal Reserve Board Chair Paul A. Volcker--considered the second most powerful man in the nation--took office with the aim of achieving low inflation and steady growth for the American economy...
...large extent, the Soviet Union was originally constructed as a military enterprise. After taking power in 1917, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky quickly forged the Red Army to fight the White Russians. Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin, saw his first priority as building up powerful defenses to protect against "capitalist encirclement" and to preserve the "Socialist Motherland." Beginning with the first Five-Year Plan in 1928, industries were divided into A (military) and B (civilian) groups, with the A organizations having first call on all resources...
That's pretty much been the pattern between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the gulf war. The ascendancy of the hard-liners in the U.S.S.R., however ominous, has not altered the country's basic desire to stay in the good graces of the capitalist world as much as possible, if only because it desperately wants outside help for its economy. Also the Soviets are so much in need of internal stability and calm that they are all the more eager to be seen fostering those virtues abroad. Hence the core of agreement -- and cooperation -- between Moscow and Washington...
WHETHER WE SUPPORT the war effort or not, we must examine our commercial reactions to this event. Hall-mark sells Valentine's Day, Grandparents' Day and Thanksgiving. M & M/Mars always cashes in on Easter. AT&T makes a buck at Mother's Day. Capitalist interpretations of these holidays may be sort of sick, but they are not wrong...